Honey Coconut Quinoa with Pomegranate

Wow!

Amazing recipe from edenkitchen.com

http://edenkitchen.com/honey-coconut-quinoa-with-pomegranate/

How many sugar cubes did you just slosh down?

A great visual reminder about the immense amount of sugar in our everyday drinks.

View the website here: http://www.sugarstacks.com/beverages.htm

Top 10 Worst Processed Foods

From our dear friend, Jamie Oliver. (http://www.jamieoliver.com/news/top-10-worst-processed-foods)

Is Consumption Consuming You?

A fantastic article. Here are a few callouts from it. Read the entire story, it's very insightful and honest.

"Manufacturers love to tweak products in ways that leave our diet largely unchanged, but allow for new "hot buttons" to be added to the product packaging to create a "health halo" and seduce you to buy more of whatever junk it may be. "


"The health care industry makes more money treating chronic diseases than it does preventing them. And the circle of business goes round and round, with us dizzy with confusion."


"The appeal of convenience, low price, added flavor and enriched nutrients is all an illusion to cover up the compromised quality of food."

"With fat, sugar and salt you can make cardboard taste exciting to the palate."

Organic Eggs: More Expensive, but No Healthier

Seems short-sighted to disregard the issue of animal cruelty and agricultural best practices.
Very biased article, I'm afraid.

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2002334,00.html

Top 10 Worst Fast-Food Meals

From Time.com: "Tasty? Yes. But would knowing the calorie counts in these items steer us away? Health advocates — and now the Senate — think so"

Check it out:

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1905549_1905546_1905424,00.html

What we eat will starve or nourish cancer cells

FRESH: A Perishable History

Pesticide Cheat Sheet

Thanks to Andy Buteau for another awesome link. (I'm going to add him as an author, BTW).

Great post with a printable cheat sheet to remind you what produce you should buy organic and what is low pesticide.

The link: http://www.mypapercrane.com/blog/?p=2135

Eat Local

The Stats on Soft Drinks

(Just to be fair, I don't see any references to credible sources, but most of these sound pretty accurate)


Click to read all the stats

Fast Food by the Numbers!

Awesome list of not-so-delicious stats about fast food.

  Click here to check em out!

Raw Food-ism

I'm doing a raw food diet right now. Pretty fun. Since starting just a few days ago, I've already been connected with a few different raw food people. Here are a few links to some awesome recipes.

http://www.rawmelissa.blogspot.com/

http://nicolasandcoraeat.com/

Your Thursday Reminder.

50 Must-See YouTube Videos to Improve Your Health and Happiness

One of the most important nurse practitioner duties is to help patients learn how to live healthy. For many people, though, it can be a challenge to access the information that they need to make better decisions about their health and wellness... READ ON

"Eat food, not too much, mostly plants."

by Adam & Holly Smith

(photo: Clay Olsen)

The new Cache Foodie group is a small bunch of food-lovers in and around Cache Valley. Our mission is to meet, eat, and share ideas and recipes that will help us abandon the "edible food-like substances" that plague our supermarkets, school cafeterias, and (all too often) our pantries.

We met this past week at our home. The food was amazing and the discussions were helpful and inspiring. We found an article online recently that summarizes many of Michael Pollan's (a nutrition author) suggestions regarding food. These are essentially the same ideas we discussed the other night and, in our opinion, are a fantastic set of rules to follow for those wanting to eat better, lose weight, or both.

7 Words & 7 Rules for Eating (taken from webmd)

1. Don't eat anything your great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. "When you pick up that box of portable yogurt tubes, or eat something with 15 ingredients you can't pronounce, ask yourself, "What are those things doing there?" Pollan says.
2. Don’t eat anything with more than five ingredients, or ingredients you can't pronounce.
3. Stay out of the middle of the supermarket; shop on the perimeter of the store. Real food tends to be on the outer edge of the store near the loading docks, where it can be replaced with fresh foods when it goes bad.
4. Don't eat anything that won't eventually rot. "There are exceptions -- honey -- but as a rule, things like Twinkies that never go bad aren't food," Pollan says.
5. It is not just what you eat but how you eat. "Always leave the table a little hungry," Pollan says. "Many cultures have rules that you stop eating before you are full. In Japan, they say eat until you are four-fifths full. Islamic culture has a similar rule, and in German culture they say, 'Tie off the sack before it's full.'"
6. Families traditionally ate together, around a table and not a TV, at regular meal times. It's a good tradition. Enjoy meals with the people you love. "Remember when eating between meals felt wrong?" Pollan asks.
7. Don't buy food where you buy your gasoline. In the U.S., 20% of food is eaten in the car.

The next post will contain recipes for the foods we gobbled at this week's Foodie-Fest.